Doomsday Sequence Convoy: I can upgrade supplies

Chapter 2 Sequence Abilities

At that moment, two people were sneaking around Chu Sheng's tent outside.

"Dad, does this kid really still have food?"

“Yes! I noticed him before. He always goes alone. I observed him for two days, and his backpack was full of food! And his tent is much better than the two of ours with their tarpaulins. If we kill him, we can sleep in the tent.”

“Great! We’ve just finished eating, and this kid is probably cooking. I’ll go ahead and cook. Dad, you can lend me a hand.”

"Hmm! Be careful, this guy has killed a few people before, and he has a butcher's knife. Don't get stabbed."

"Okay!" the young man grinned.

He then kicked the tent, but soon let out a painful howl.

"what!"

He collapsed to the ground, clutching his foot and rolling around.

A cut appeared on his foot, running from the sole of his foot all the way through the entire instep; half of his foot had been shaved off.

Blood flowed onto the ground as if the person was courting death.

Upon seeing his son like this, the middle-aged man panicked and instinctively tried to help his son up, but Chu Sheng didn't let the opportunity pass.

He had been crouching there the whole time. If someone wanted to kill him, their first instinct would be to collapse the tent and then attack him while it was collapsing.

The spot where the people outside stopped was exactly where he used the poles to support the tent, which coincided with his idea.

After waiting a while, Chu Sheng saw a human-shaped silhouette outside the tent through the light. As he kicked, he placed the tip of the butcher's knife directly in that spot.

Sure enough, the man kicked the butcher's knife directly, and Chu Sheng only needed to exert a little force to cut off half of his foot.

Having succeeded in his sneak attack, Chu Sheng immediately pressed his advantage, easily tearing a crack in the tent with a flick of his butcher knife.

The moment Chu Sheng emerged from the crack, he rushed towards the direction where the man had fallen, but upon seeing clearly that there was another person present, he immediately turned his blade around and stabbed at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man, who was about to help his son up, seemed not to have expected that Chu Sheng would break the tent and run out. Caught off guard, he was stabbed in the stomach by Chu Sheng with a butcher knife.

Chu Sheng looked at the middle-aged man, grinned, let the rainwater flow into his mouth, and with a forceful pull, the butcher knife cut open the middle-aged man's belly.

He was extremely fast, and after landing a successful strike, he immediately pulled back to create distance.

It only took four or five seconds from the young man kicking him to the middle-aged man being disemboweled.

The middle-aged man was still in shock, staring blankly down at his spilled internal organs and his wailing son on the ground.

"I...you...it hurts so much..."

He uttered a trembling sentence, then felt the world rapidly darken, and he collapsed to the ground, lifeless.

"What a fine knife!" Chu Sheng smiled, completely unconcerned that he had killed someone just seconds before, and instead marveled at the sharpness of the butcher's knife.

Although this knife was quite sharp before, after the upgrade it feels like it can cut through iron like mud.

He felt it when he cut off the man's foot, and now that he's disemboweling him, it confirms his suspicions.

Chu Sheng's gaze returned to the young man on the ground.

Upon seeing his father dead, the young man forgot his wailing and crawled forward, trembling all over.

Chu Sheng naturally wouldn't let him escape like that. He immediately stepped forward and kicked him, causing him to stumble and fall to the ground. Then he stepped on his back with another foot, rendering him unable to move.

"I...I'm sorry! I...I...I didn't mean to..." The young man tried to beg for mercy, but Chu Sheng wouldn't listen.

"If apologies were useful, what would I need a knife for? You don't need to apologize; I'll take your remorse away myself." Chu Sheng's calm words sent a shiver down the young man's spine.

Before he could continue, the butcher's knife fell directly onto his head.

Kill with one blow!
However, Chu Sheng did not feel joy, but frowned. He had just felt a resistance.

It's like cutting cold pig skin with a dull knife.

It's not that it can't be cut, but it's difficult.

The butcher's knife is somewhat similar at this moment.

However, Chu Sheng quickly came to terms with it. He had only upgraded once, and the butcher knife had already undergone a qualitative leap. What more could he ask for?

He chose to target the head because he had heard that the head is the hardest part of the body and is specifically used for testing knives.

Chu Sheng kicked the corpse aside, sighed, returned to the tent, put his wet clothes back on, hung the butcher knife on his waist, and dragged a corpse with one hand toward a slightly farther place.

The body itself is not important, but it's still a bit unsettling to leave it next to the tent.

After discarding the body, Chu Sheng finally breathed a sigh of relief after securing the tent with duct tape.

At the same time, he gave a harmless, shy smile to the people around him who were looking over.

Human life is the least valuable thing in the end times.

Someone saw the father and son heading towards Chu Sheng's tent, and everyone saw the young man's scream.

But no one came out to stop it.

Just six months after the apocalypse, everyone's indifference to human life has already reached this level.

Chu Sheng recognized the father and son from earlier; they were survivors who had escaped from Changjiang City, just like himself.

Holding the butcher knife in his hand again, Chu Sheng walked straight toward the tent that the father and son had set up earlier.

Their tents were easy to spot; out of the entire convoy of over two hundred people, only theirs had three-colored tarpaulins.

When Chu Sheng arrived at the location, he glanced at the contents of the tarpaulin and shook his head.

Apart from the tarpaulin, there were a few transparent plastic bags on the ground, but otherwise it was empty.

It's obvious at a glance that something inside has been taken.

Looking around at the people, and seeing that everyone was avoiding his gaze, Chu Sheng didn't care; he had done this kind of thing many times before.

Moreover, they had already sunk to the point of wanting to kill, and their supplies were running low.

Thinking of this, he tore off the three-colored tarpaulin and didn't even spare the plastic bags on the ground, folding them all up and packing them up to take away.

Three-color tarpaulins are quite common, mostly found on construction sites and in department stores, and they look similar in texture to urea bags.

As Chu Sheng passed the tattooed thug carrying the tarpaulin, he gave him a friendly smile, which startled him. "Damn, this kid looks harmless, how can he be so ruthless..."

Back in the tent, Chu Sheng picked up the self-heating hot pot he had prepared earlier and enjoyed a delicious meal.

The convoy was also on its way today, but I think I've made some progress.

……

At this moment, at the very front of the convoy, a red-haired boy, having watched the entire spectacle, returned to his car.

"I thought we'd see that guy wreak havoc, but he only took a tarpaulin back with him."

"Xiaoqing, don't say things that are detrimental to unity!"

"Besides, it would be stupid for that guy to actually go on a killing spree," a bespectacled, pale-faced, somewhat anemic-looking man interjected.

"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. We'll be at the next supply point soon, so get ready."

"That place is a bit eerie."

"Strange? Aren't strange things happening everywhere these days?"

"No, what I mean by eerie is that something's not quite right." The refined-looking man with glasses adjusted his glasses. "My divination tells me that there's nothing eerie about that place."

"Not a bit strange at all?! That's definitely a bit strange." An old man who looked somewhat sleazy sighed.

There were four people in the car.

A refined-looking man with glasses, a red-haired young girl, a lewd old man, and a girl who hadn't said a word.

They are the sequence ability users in the caravan.

The origins of these strange phenomena are unknown, but with the apocalypse having been around for some time, we've come to understand some of their patterns.

These eerie creatures prefer crowded places; the more people there are, the stronger the life force becomes, and the more likely they are to attract the attention of these creatures.

At the beginning of the apocalypse, the authorities did organize shelters, but without exception, they were all targeted by the supernatural and destroyed.

In the final period when communication was still possible, the highest level issued a strategy of migration for survival.

This refers to small groups banding together, with a sequence as their core, to wander and survive in the apocalypse.

"Why think so much?! Let's just live one day at a time!" Red-haired Xiaoqing no longer had the same amused expression as before, and said indifferently, "We can't just not go because something seems a little off, can we? If we don't go, all those ordinary people will starve to death."

"Who knows when you'll find a place to loot supplies again if you miss this opportunity?"

"Brother Hui, if you ask me, we should go to this place. We'll find out what's wrong once we get there."

"It's the end of the world. There are too many strange things. Avoiding them all won't make much difference."

His words silenced everyone present, and even the refined-looking bespectacled man known as Brother Hui sighed.

"That makes sense. Let's make preparations then, as the day after tomorrow might be very dangerous."

The next day, the sky was just getting light.

A rustling sound came from the camp, and Chu Sheng immediately woke up from his sleep, instinctively gripping the pig-slaughtering knife in his hand. It took him a few seconds to realize that it was dawn.

The sound just now was someone cooking.

Chu Sheng ate a quick self-heating hot pot and then crawled out.

The rain had stopped by then, and although it was still unclear what the weather was like today, the fact that it wasn't raining made Chu Sheng breathe a sigh of relief.

If it rains again today, he will have to travel in the rain, which is too risky. He could easily catch a cold or fever.

But if you don't keep up with the convoy, you'll have no chance of survival.

Many people fell behind during this time, but without exception, none of them caught up.

Everyone knows what will happen to those who didn't catch up.

How does one awaken a sequence?

Chu Sheng found a quiet place to sit and watched the people cooking and eating in the camp, and began to think.

Ever since he learned of the existence of the sequence, he asks himself this question every morning when he wakes up.

It's become a habit now.

Besides that sentence, Chu Sheng had two other questions he asked himself.

How can I survive in the apocalypse?

How can I live a better life?

Chu Sheng referred to these three questions as "I examine myself three times a day".

Just as he was contemplating life, he suddenly saw a furtive figure walking towards his tent.

Chu Sheng immediately drew the butcher knife from his waist and pretended not to see it.

Near the tent was the tattooed thug who had stolen his bicycle earlier; he was now placing a bicycle next to him.

Yesterday, Chu Sheng killed the father and son. He was shocked, especially when Chu Sheng smiled at him while holding the tarpaulin. He had a feeling that he was about to be in big trouble.

So today he plans to return the bicycle.

This was his rule when he was a thug: never mess with someone stronger than yourself.

After parking the bicycle, the tattooed thug glanced cautiously at Chu Sheng, who seemed to be contemplating life, and then fled as if his life depended on it.

Chu Sheng witnessed all of this.

Do you really think that returning the bicycle is enough?
"That tattooed thug is dead meat," he said.

The original plan was to kill him after the supplies were replenished so he could get the supplies for free, since he couldn't carry too much with him when he was replenishing supplies.

But now that there's an upgrade system, he has a feeling that he won't lack supplies anymore.

So I've decided to kill him today.

(End of this chapter)